Negative Watercolor Painting for Children's Illustration
Painting negative
A course by Alinailustra , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Painting negative
Overview
“By allowing each layer to dry completely, you can gradually layer more saturated tones to achieve depth. Remember to always take care of the negative space reserves that you made from the beginning so as not to paint over them. ”
In this video lesson Alinailustra addresses the topic: Painting negative, which is part of the Domestika online course: Negative Watercolor Painting for Children's Illustration. Expand your watercolor techniques to add depth and a touch of magic to your illustrations .
Partial transcription of the video
“Negative Painting Now I’ll go on to make the next layer by glazing, starting to push some objects back and bringing others forward depending on the space I preserve. So I’ll go back to my sketch to show you the elements I’m going to preserve in this new layer. I would like the leaves that are down here to appear closer to me, to the viewer, and push, for example, these two trees back and bring this one to the front. So I'm going to start making a new layer that will respect this space. I'm going to go around it, even this twig too. Comic-book artists, for example, use an X to mark the areas...”
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Course summary for: Negative Watercolor Painting for Children's Illustration
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Children's Illustration, Narrative, Painting, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting
Alinailustra
A course by Alinailustra
Carolina Alarcón holds a degree in graphic design and has more than a decade of professional experience as an illustrator and designer. The bulk of her work focuses on children's illustration, primarily for the publishing industry. She has collaborated with publishing companies such as Pearson México, Planeta, Norma, Piedra Santa, Santillana, and Revista Bacánika to name a few.
Carolina is the creative mind and hand behind Alinailustra, her personal online brand where she offers products decorated with her own illustrations and shares educational materials. She also recently launched ilustropik, an initiative centered around organizing activities and events to help promote work from illustrators in her city.
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